For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal de-extinction. Colossal Biosciences announced the revival of the long-extinct wolf species in a news release on

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype